Standards to be covered

  • RL 1, 4
  • RI 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 9
  • SL 1c & d – initiate and participate in collaborate discussions (cooperative groups), building on ideas, questioning and challenging ideas; synthesizing other points of view, evidence, contrasts
  • 2, 3, 4
  • L 3; L 6 – learning and applying academic language
  • WS 1 – write arguments to support claims, using logic and evidence
  • WS 7 – research projects–short and extended—solving a problem, synthesize multiple sources
  • WS 9 – draw evidence from texts to support reflection, analysis, research

Skills

  • Research skills
    • 9th: Teacher provides evidence (or some evidence) & focus on how to find credible sources and look for biases.
    • 10th: ½ Teacher provides evidence & ½ student found
    • 11th & 12th: Student Found

  • Link evidence to argument
  • Counter-argument/argument
    • Rebuttal/Refute
  • Claims/Counter-claim
  • Evidence
    • Types of Evidence: academic text, Studies, Electronic Sources, Statistics, Primary & Secondary Sources
  • Appeals: Ethos, Logos, Pathos
    • Note: Ethos is creditability, authority, and evidences that provides the power to speak = Ethos.
  • Citations
  • Logical Fallacies
  • Debate
  • Tone
  • Connotation, denotation, diction
  • Loaded words
  • Purpose (author's purpose)\
  • Evaluate creditable sources
  • Gist
  • Audience
  • Synthesis
  • Paraphrase/summarize

Concepts


Students create an argument: what does text(s) say, develop and defend a position
NOTES:
Arguments – Students create an argument “They Say/I Say”
  • ERWC Prompts
    • What does Text/do texts day?
    • Take and develop a position
    • Defend position with reasons (Topic Sentence) & Evidence (Experience, Observations, Academic Texts, Concreate Details)
  • Students need to know
    • Author’s opinion
    • Reading and writing with and against the grain
    • Academic vocabulary
    • Multiple texts/complex text

Reading Selections


Writing Task


11 & 12th grade
  • Multi- Draft
    • Multi Drafted Prompts need to include:
      • Series of guiding Q’s
      • Multiple sources
      • Sophisticated argument
      • Provide information
      • Figurative language
      • Synthesis
      • Identify & explain essential claims and provide own opinions.
      • Counterargument
      • Inference text/evidence
      • Experiential observations, inferences and evidence
      • Diction, voice, tone, in their writing, writer style, organization.

    • Multi – Draft Papers need to have the following:
      • Multiple reading and sources as a means to strengthen thesis.
      • Position/thesis
      • Essential claims, own opinions
      • Counterarguments
      • Inferences from text, evidence, and experiential observations
      • Student writer need to consider audience and purpose
      • Student writer needs to include: diction, voice, tone, writer style and organization
      • MLA Citations – more carefully
      • Create a Work Cited page

    • Prewriting Need:
      • Providing Model papers (wing it until we have those papers)
      • Graphic organizers/Outline: Now student designed and generated
      • Unpack prompt – on their own
      • Use of Formal vs. Informal language and use of jargon (language used in articles)
      • Plagiarism: paraphrase 5 to 1 vs. Direct: partial and quotation.

    • Revision Need:


10 & 11th grade


10th grade prompts for on demand argumentative writing should follow this pattern:

Explain ___’s argument, and discuss the ways in which you agree or disagree with his views. Support your position by providing reasons and examples from your own observations, experiences, or readings.

11th and 12th grade prompts will ask students to take a more nuanced (qualified) argument. It will ask students to acknowledge the comprehensive nature of the argument; to consider both sides of the argument. It will also require students to provide specific, credible evidence in academic language.

Interim Assessment